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Archive For The “replicas” Category

This is a replica of the arm control unit on the spacesuits from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I modeled and printed the it in four pieces: the IBM button, the top and bottom rows of buttons, and the chassis. The two metallic buttons are covered in aluminum tape and then sanded for a brushed look….

More pics later, but here are several Blade Runner 2049 prop replicas I’ve built. Except for the tablet and pen, which are built from the same parts used to make the originals (although, the smaller tablet never made it on screen), all these owe their origin to designers from the Replica Prop Forum who designed…

This is a replica of the eye exam device from the film Bicentennial Man. It was originally fabricated by Adam Savage (see http://adamsavage.com/film.html) for the film and eventually also showed up on the TV show NCIS… for some reason. At any rate, I love art deco, I love props and I love Adam Savage’s work….

So let me just get this confession out of the way. I love Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I love it to death, warts and all. Roger Ebert said of the film, “It’s like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass through reality…

I’ve put this one off for ages. I’ve always wanted to scratch-build a Space:1999 Commlock but I’ve seen it done by real masters of scratch-building. I’m calling it a prototype in that the idea was to figure out how to build one well by building one at all. And, yeah, I was nervous about not…

UPDATE: The STLS for the psrtas for the stand shown below can be found in my designs on Thingiverse. UPDATE: I’ve since built another Samaritan. This one full-sized and finished more realistically. More pics later, but here’s a shot of it right after finishing it. Back to the original post… I probably implied I was…